Kali Yuga

English · Français

AI In plain words

Writing a short explanation…

Written by a house AI from the entry below, in your language. The entry itself is the source.

Kali Yuga

Where it comes from

Unadapted borrowing from Sanskrit कलियुग (kaliyuga, “age of darkness”), from कलि (kali, “Kali, Kalipurush, demon of corruption”) + युग (yuga, “yuga”). Some etymologies claim it was named after the worst throw in an ancient Indian dice game.

proper noun Kaliyuga · Kali-Yuga · Kalyug

In Hinduism, the fourth and most evil of four stages of development that the world goes through as part of the cycle of yugas, traditionally thought to have begun at midnight (00:00) on 18 February, 3102 B.C.E. under the Julian calendar (23 January under the Gregorian calendar), and lasts for 432,000 years.

Translations

Every language

name fourth yuga of Hindu cosmology

हिन्दी	कलियुग kaliyug, कलि kali

Talk about this word

Cite this

MLA

"Kali Yuga." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/kali%20yuga. Accessed 7 Nov. 2026.

APA

Kali Yuga. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 7, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/kali%20yuga

Chicago

"Kali Yuga." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 7, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/kali%20yuga.

BibTeX

@misc{kali_yuga_2026,
  title = {Kali Yuga},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/kali%20yuga},
  urldate = {2026-11-07}
}